It has become known that the Chechen refugees living in the "Azul" camp for displaced people in Treiskirchen, Austria, have been suffering indignities from the Austrian authorities for the second week already.

"All of the resources in the negotiations with the government have been used up. Thus a mass meeting will take place in Tbilisi on Friday, at 4 p.m., the only demand in which will be the impeachment of President Shevardnadze," said one of the opposition leaders Mikhail Saakashvili.

A round table discussion was held in Sukhum on November 11 on the initiative of the non-government public organization "Center for Humanitarian Programs". It was devoted to the problems of return of descendants of Mahajirs - who were forced to leave their native land in the 19th century as a result of the Caucasian War - to Abkhazia.

Relatives of the South Osetian public figure Alan Chochiev arrested in Vladikavkaz report he is still in prison and continues the hunger strike he started on October 19.

Tonight Eduard Shevardnadze is to meet representatives of the radical opposition blocs: Mikhail Saakashvili of Saakashvili - National Movement, Georgian parliament speaker Nino Burdjanadze of Burdjanadze - Democrats, and former parliament speaker Zurab Zhvania.

Jenny Norton and Lara Griffiths, members of the British non-government organization "Conciliation Resources", arrived in Stepanakert for a familiarization visit. They were received by Foreign Minister of Nagorny Karabakh Ashot Gulian.

The camp inhabitants hold the "arms of the law" were celebrating Day of the Militia and decided to mark their professional holiday in such an extravagant way.

The republican newspaper of Nagorny Karabakh "Azat Artsakh", the Stepanakert Press Club and the independent newspaper "What To Do" have founded a discussion club, within which round tables touching upon the most urgent problems in Nagorny Karabakh will be periodically conducted.

A successive stage of "the people's peacemaking action" "Journey of Peace", which started in Yekaterinburg a month ago, is over.

American specialists have done researches and ascertained that 11,108 hectares remain mined in Armenia.

A meeting "for democracy and against lawlessness and high-handedness" arranged by the Russian Democratic Yabloko Party was held in Moscow, on Pushkinskaya Square, on November 7.

Experts hold Rauf Arifoglu will surely be imprisoned for a month or two, and after it President Ilkham Aliyev's petition will let him be released.

"We feel with the persecuted Chechens and want to remind everybody that things happening in Chechnya will have an inevitable effect on our own life, and not only by regular kamikaze explosions," the organizers of the action note in their press release.

On November 3, the Nasiminsky District Court pronounced judgment to hold in custody Eldar Tagiev, an expert of the "Yeni Musavat" newspaper.

The conference "Chechnya: Humane Catastrophe and Way to Peace" is to be held in Boston, the U.S., on November 14-15, with documentaries being shown.

According to information received by the Central Election Commission from 2,716 out of 2,870 polling stations, For New Georgia won 20.6% of the vote. At some of the polling stations the elections have been declared invalid because of the violations and at some other stations the second round of the elections will be held.

The protest is caused by the passive, as the organization believes, activity of Russia, the U.S., China, France, and Great Britain on the Karabakh conflict settlement.

Despite the rain, about three hundred people gathered at the square and the crowd of protesters was gradually growing.

"Mr. Berlusconi undertook another disgraceful deed: he supported the stance of President Putin, who had come into power and developed his muscles by perpetrating the genocide of the small nationality," reads the statement.

The national communities came to the agreement they would initially discuss the proposal in their organizations and then would make a final decision and hold a joint congress.